c. 1750
43.5 × 26 cm (17 1/8 × 10 1/4 in.)
The artist’s estate; Coypel family, by descent; Galerie de Bayser, Paris; Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston (inv. no. D-F-445), gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, 1999.21
red chalk (counterproof) on cream antique paper, adhered to blue cream antique laid paper strips
18th centuryFrenchGouache on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and brown wash over black chalk on toned cream antique laid paper, laid down on laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, heightened with white, on discolored blue antique-laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on off-white antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper strips adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink, gray wash, over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, incised
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink and gray wash over faint black crayon on off-white laid paper, laid down to pale green laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk over traces of graphite, with guidelines in graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchRed and black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed and white chalk
18th centuryFrench